Now Selfies Can Be Used as Passwords

A new app called FaceCrypt can secure data on your iPhone and iPad using a picture of your face instead of the usual complex alphanumeric password.

There are also optional security features that require users to blink to prove that they are human or to prevent an unauthorized user from holding a photo of the owner up to the phone’s camera to break into the device.

FaceCrypt’s website acknowledges that poor lighting and even new facial hair may impede facial recognition, so if you grew a mustache for Movember, you should probably input a new photo that your device will recognize.

The writer never said using facial recognition as a password is a new thing, just that it can be used on iPhones now...which is true, and which is a fact; the writer is delivering facts and that is her job. So what are you old farts complaining about?

We bought some fairly inexpensive laptops with this same time capabilities years ago just like they have had fingerprint readers for years. I think these things get hype because many of these writers are young and think everything they've never heard of is new.

Exactly @geoffrey.melle , this is why i hate apple fanboys/girls, android has had this feature STOCK on there phones, not on a separate app, for awhile now. But now that apple has it, its "the best new thing." Give me a break.

This feature has been available on android phones for over a year and a half. Its called facial recognition. This author is clearly someone stuck in the apple closet and has no idea what's going on in the tech world outside of all the white walls of apple. Let's report some NEWS. Keyword is NEW

@backofthemuse Wow, really. Then get out of iPhones' neighborhood for a minute and try to look around. Google used and experimented with this technology with Android phones a long time ago. And it's their own, unlike iPhones' which is not a native apps. What going on with iPhones these days? Tell the writer to write something new, please? This is not news anymore, LOL :O